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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Let's begin -- same rules apply
  • Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:12:41 -0800 (PST)

James , that is really an excellent political commentary. Seriously
.....bobford


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--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

>
> You still naively think that. As far as inflicting his own
> interests on the rest of us, Bush was the right hand punch and Obama is
> the follow-up left. The old coal miner song 'Sixteen Tons" contains the
> couplet:
>
"I've got one fist of iron, the other of steel
> If the right one don't get you, then the left one will!"

> Bush, like of all his ilk, bought his own schtick. He really believes that
> the only way any of us can have beans on the table is if they tinkle down
> from the monstrously wealthy above us. When you protest about his
> largesse to his wealthy buddies, he blinks and stares and says you are
> trying to take away the source of succor, the ONLY source, from the poor.
> After all, if you bridle the rich, there will be nothing to tinkle down on
> you and you will be ruined. That's idiotic of course, even evil, but it
> is what the Bush's of the world earnestly believe.

> That's the right hand blow.
>
Obama believes his own schtick as well (and so far, it seems you believe his
schtick). The only reason some people are poor is because
> the rich have too much. If we just took some of that stuff from the rich,
> there would be plenty to give to the poor, the old 'divide up the pie'
> ploy. History and reality firmly remind us that this is not true. Once
> you start sticking your finger in to someone else's pie, they stop baking
> pies.
>
> All jibbing aside (for this post only) and being straight for once, set
> aside all the 'yes we can' and 'change the changes' and 'he's a decent man'
> and all that empty rhetoric. What is Obama going to do? From what
> we've seen so far it is a rehash of the worst of the New Deal and the
> Great Society.
>
> That is, by Bush (and ilk) facilitating the worst of the
> greedy instintcs of the American people, he has delivered us an almighty
> right hand blow with his fist of iron. Now, Obama facilitating all the
> worst of our dependent and slothful instincts, is winding up to give us an
> almighty left hand blow with his fist of steel.
>
> The only bright spot in this is that as the Obama administration undwinds,
> perhaps we sill at long last look up from our punch drunk
> haze and say with bloodied lips, "Enough of this!" and quit this
> left-right destructive punching we've experienced our entire lifetimes.
>
>
> James








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